13 planes suddenly disappear from radars in Europe for 25mins in 'unprecedented' incident

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A total of 13 aircraft suddenly vanished off radars for about 25 minutes on two occasions while flying over Austria, it has been revealed.

In what is being billed as 'unprecedented' circumstances, the incidents on June 5 and yesterday saw the flight data disappear from air controller screens.

Austria's flight safety organisation admitted that the height, location and other information for a total of 13 aircraft mysteriously vanished from radars. It is believed that some of the planes were long-haul flights carrying passengers on board. Continue... 

Outbreak of malaria in northern India, 20 dead

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At least 20 people have died from malaria in a remote corner of India in the past week, putting medical authorities on high alert at the start of the monsoon season, an official said Friday. Tripura health minister Badal Choudhury said deaths so far in the northeast state were unusually high, with doctors ordered to contain the mosquito-borne disease before it "gets out of hand".

"So far we have received reports of 20 deaths and more than 400 people afflicted with the disease in the past one week," Choudhury told AFP by telephone.

Ukrainian armed forces violate Russian border: Moscow sends note of protest

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The Russian Foreign Ministry has sent a note of protest to Ukraine over the violation by Ukrainian soldiers of the joint border with Russia in the Kuibyshevsky district of its Rostov region, the ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Friday, Interfax agency reports.

"We see such actions by the Ukrainian side as a gross violation of the fundamental provisions of the international law, as an unlawful act that will not facilitate a peaceful resolution of the armed conflict in South-East Ukraine," the ministry said in the statement.

Also refer to: DPR army admit three tanks added to their arsenal

Russia has demanded that this sort of provocations should stop as they "hamper the incipient process of restoring the bilateral Russian-Ukrainian dialogue."

DPR army admit three tanks added to their arsenal

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The territorial army of the Donetsk People's Republic has received three more tanks for their arsenal, the army headquarters told RIA Novosti.

The headquarters said that the tanks will be sent to the most difficult sectors of the front. According to some sources, one of the tanks entered a battle with the National Guard near Saur-Mogila in the Donetsk Region today.

The territorial army do not specify where the tanks came from. Eye-witnesses interviewed by RIA Novosti saw them in the towns of Snezhnoye and Torez, and say that those were either T-70 or T-72 tanks.

19-yr-old London Couple Plunges To Death While Having "Balcony Style" during S3x On 6th Floor

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Two teenagers fell to their deaths from a balcony yesterday as they cuddled at a party to mark the end of their exams. Anastasia Tutik, a 19-year-old Russian, and a Mexican known only as Miguel, 18, were in a clinch when they lost their balance. The drop of more than 60ft from the sixth floor killed them instantly.

They were celebrating at a luxury apartment block in Deptford, south-east London, with fellow students from Bellerbys College, an international school which charges fees of up to £21,000 a year.

Our Parent dont know how to calculaten in %: LASU Students decline School fee reduction by Governor Fashola

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Lagos state University students have rejected Governor Fashola's proposed 34% and 60% across the various faculties and courses decrease in school fees.

 

At a media conference held yesterday June 12th in Ogba, the President of LASU Student Union Government, Nurudeen Yusuf, said their state government should spell out the proposed new fees in Naira and Kobo as opposed to this percentage as their parents who're in charge of the payments don't know how to calculate in percentage.

"We do not accept the 34 to 60% reduction of the government because in 2011 when the fees were increased, it was not done on percentage level; rather, they made the pronouncement in Naira and Kobo. We urge the government to come out in words as to how much will be paid by our students in Naira and Kobo and not in percentage. How do they expect our parents, the market women scrambling to pay our fees, to calculate the percentage? The government is only trying to play games with our future. We question their sincerity on this matter because the pronouncement of the fee was as a result of a visitation panel set up by the government of which the report was selectively adopted" Yusuf said

Kefee dies, publicist releases official statement confirming her death

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An official statement from Kefee's UK publicist confirming her passing. Find it below...

On behalf of the family….It is with a great sadness but grateful hearts that we announce the passing to glory due to lungs failure this morning of our God’s mouth piece, chorus leader, daughter, wife, sister, friend Kefee Branama Queen … May her beautiful, gentle and precious soul rest in perfect peace. Amen!!

PS: In contrast to all earlier rumors and stories in circulation, I do state that Kefee wasn’t 6 months pregnant and neither did she have pre-eclampsia.

For the family
Adeline Adelicious Adebayo, (Kefee’s UK Manager)

Bergdahl on his way back to US after Spending 5 years as a Taliban prisoner of war

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After spending five years as a Taliban prisoner of war -- Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is heading home.

The Pentagon says he will arrive in San Antonio, where he will receive further treatment at the Brooke Army Medical Center.

Bergdahl was handed over to US forces in Afghanistan on May 31 in exchange for the release of five Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo Bay.

Donetsk Republic leader`s car bombed

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Unidentified persons have bombed the car of Denis Pushilin, the leader of Donetsk People’s Republic, on Thursday, June 12.

“My car has been blown up. There were three persons in the car. Two of them are in critical condition,” Pushilin told ITAR-TASS. “I haven’t been using this car for two days,” he added.

The incident occurred 100 meters from the Donetsk regional administration building.

Priest killed, another injured in US shooting

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Police were hunting Thursday a gunman or gunmen who killed one priest and injured another at a Catholic church in Arizona.

The priest who survived was able to give the last rites to his fatally-hit colleague before he died, police told reporters after the mystery attack Wednesday night in Phoenix, reports AFP.

An intruder or intruders broke into the Mother of Mercy church around 9:30 pm Wednesday. A 911 emergency call for burglary was made by Father Joseph Terra, as he comforted his dying colleague, Father Kenneth Walker.

British PM Cameron argues about Juncker`s candidacy for top EU job

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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday made his strongest public intervention yet to stop Jean-Claude Juncker becoming the next European Commission president, saying it was nonsense to suggest that European voters had chosen him.

Cameron does not want Juncker to get the job as he views him as too much of an old-style federalist who will obstruct his push to reform the European Union and persuade British voters of the merits of staying within the 28-nation bloc, informed Reuters.

Jen Psaki suggests that phosphorus bombs under Slavyansk belongs to Russia

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During a briefing, State Department spokesman Jen Psak for the first time heard from the journalists that the day before the incendiary phosphorous bombs were used under Slavyansk. Her reaction surprised the journalists.

On June 13, 2014 answering the question what is the opinion of the State Department on the use of phosphorus bombs in Slavyansk, Jen Psak repeated:

-"By whom? By Russians?"

-"By Ukrainian army", said the journalist.

-"No, I didn’t see that", answered Psaki.
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Ukraine's armed forces launche first ever incendiary raid against Slavyansk suburbs.

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A village of Semenovka near the Ukraine's eastern restive city of Slavyansk appears to have been targeted for a fire-bomb attack on Wednesday night, a source at the local self-defense headquarters told RIA Novosti Thursday. "Late on Wednesday, Semenovka came under attack that apparently involved fire bombs. They exploded right above the village and split into smoldering fragments," an eyewitness said.

Fires were reported to flare up all across Semenovka, the eastern suburb of Slavyansk that sits on one of the major roads to the city.

Tear gas and fireworks: Brazil World Cup off to a bang

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It was a day of contrasts in Brazil as the country opened the World Cup with clashes between riot police and protesters in Sao Paulo, before wild street celebrations when the "Seleção Brasileira" beat Croatia 3-1 after coming from behind.

The fireworks that exploded over the mega-city after each goal for Brazil made the tear gas and clashes just up the road from Corinthians Arena seem so much more distant.

US companies evacuating Iraqi air base

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As AFP informs, US companies were Thursday evacuating hundreds of Americans working with the Iraqi government from a major air base, US officials said, as Islamic militants swept towards Baghdad.

A US defense official confirmed that "a few hundred" American contractors from Balad air base, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the capital, were being moved to Baghdad for security reasons.

CIA trying to restore reputation through social networks

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The CIA is trying at all cost to clear its name which was damaged after a series of sensational revelations, RT reports. CIA Director John Brennan says that he is disturbed by the manner in which the media describe his department because, in his opinion, they severely falsify information.

Earlier this month, the CIA started official pages on Facebook and Twitter. CIA representatives in the microblog service cracked a lame joke saying that they cannot either confirm or contradict the fact that this is their first twit.

Wikileaks exposes dark sides of Ukraine’s Poroshenko, Tymoshenko

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Two diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks Public Library on US Diplomacy reveal that Ukraine’s president-elect Petr Poroshenko served as an informant for US State Department. A confidential message from the US Embassy in Kiev dating back to April 29, 2006 mentions the now widely-known confectionary tycoon twice.

Back then Poroshenko reportedly handed to the US Embassy in Kiev inside information on plotting a coalition government in 2006, Wikileaks says.

4 Men Has Been Docked For Committing Sodomy in Bauchi

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In Bauchi, four middle-aged men were arraigned before a Sharia court today, for alleged sodomy. Abubakar Garba, the prosecutor, reportedly told the court that the four men were “caught in the act” in Gumau Town last month according to reports. Three of the accused pleaded guilty to the charge, and have asked for mercy. However, one of the men has pleaded not guilty to the allegation.  The case has been adjourned till June 26th. 

Serving senator, Dahiru Kuta, Kicked the Bucket @65

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Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta, a serving senator representing Niger East Senatorial District has died. A member of PDP, Senator Kuta assumed office as the Senator for the Niger East constituency of Niger State, on 29 May 2007. May his soul rest in peace...Ase!

Official: Cesc Fabregas Joins Chelsea for 30m euro.

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Cesc Fabregas has completed his transfer to Chelsea from Barcelona, the Spain midfielder has announced in a statement.  The 27-year-old is currently in Brazil with the national squad but has put pen to paper on a deal that sees him return to England after leaving Arsenal for the Nou Camp in 2011.
He is believed to have signed a five-year contract for a fee in the region of £30million.